Kelvin Sampson Quotes

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

Once we receive education, we should be grateful for it, respect it, and remember what we learnt.

I respect teachers and professors.

I think you never leave what you learn.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

Teachers are important in this world.